Hypatia articles from January 1998

Hypatia archives from January 1998

Generosity: between love and desire. (victimology in feminist theory)
January 1, 1998... Over the past ten years, an alliance has developed between so-called radical feminism and the emerging discourse of safe sex. The discourse of safe sex advocates protection against the dangers of disease thought to be inherent in abandoning...

Rethinking power. (feminists and power)
January 1, 1998... Feminists have talked a great deal about power, so much so that it may seem as if nothing more remains to be said on the topic. This focus is not surprising, given that, as Joan Scott has argued, "gender is a primary field within which or by...

Saving the victim: recuperating the language of the victim and reassessing global feminism.
January 1, 1998... Between patriarchy and imperialism, subject-constitution and object-formation, the figure of the woman disappears, not into pristine nothingness, but into a violent shuttling which is the displaced figuration of the "third world woman" caught...

How does one know what shame is? epistemology, emotions and forms of life in juxtaposition.
January 1, 1998... A central query in my work on women's shame has been how to understand what a woman knows when she feels shame (or recognizes another woman's shame) and how, by what means - that is, these are questions of justification, of types of inferences,...

The reasonable heart: Mary Woolstonecraft's view of the relation between reason and feeling in morality, moral psychology, and moral development.
January 1, 1998... PART I Introduction At the beginning of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft states the work's three foundational principles. The first two say that it is reason that places man above brutes and virtue that exalts one...

Catharine Macaulay's 'Letters on Education': odd but equal.
January 1, 1998... Catharine Macaulay's work Letters on Education published just five years before A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is an acknowledged influence on Mary Wollstonecraft; indeed Wollstonecraft herself states that when she first thought of writing...

The speaking abject in Kristeva's 'Powers of Horror.' (Julia Kristeva)
January 1, 1998... Is it the quiet shore of contemplation that I set aside for myself, as I lay bare, under the cunning, orderly surface of civilizations, the nurturing horror that they attend to pushing aside by purifying, systematizing, and thinking; the horror...

Ecofeminism and nonhumans: continuity, difference, dualism, and domination.
January 1, 1998... Certain ecofeminists have developed sophisticated critiques of the structures in western patriarchal culture that contribute to ongoing domination and oppression, not only of women but of nondominant groups of humans, identified according to...

Thoughts on lesbian differences.
January 1, 1998... I find Cheshire Calhoun's work compelling not because I am particularly drawn to a new dual- or multiple-systems approach, but because I agree with her claim that it is useful to tease apart the distinct workings of heterosexualisms and...

Radicalesbianfeminist theory. (response to Cheshire Calhoun, Feminism and Families, 1996)
January 1, 1998... In a series of highly articulate and carefully argued papers in lesbian theory, Cheshire Calhoun has been working for the past several years on a project that has surprised and puzzled many of her feminist readers. Whereas many feminist...

Cheshire Calhoun's project of separating lesbian theory from feminist theory. (response to Cheshire Calhoun, Notre dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, vol. 9, p. 241, 1995)
January 1, 1998... For the past few years, Cheshire Calhoun has been developing a new and exciting direction in lesbian and feminist philosophy, or philosophies(!). The targets of her political critiques using this new direction have been two disparate groups....

Taking seriously dual systems and sex. (response to articles by Ann Ferguson and Claudia Card, in this issue, pp. 206 and 214)
January 1, 1998... I am both honored by and grateful for this session on my work - specially since my work has not taken the form of a book, and is scattered across an odd array of journals and anthologies. I want to thank Richard Mohr and the Society for Lesbian...

Humankind at a turning point? Feminist perspectives.
January 1, 1998... THE IAPH I am here as a representative of the IAPh, die Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinnen or the International Association of Women Philosophers. This Association was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Berlin.(1) The goals...